Signal lamp or lantern



(No Model.)

L. G. HUNTINGTON & R. J. ARMOUR.

SIGNAL LAMP OR LANTERN.

No. 463,402. Patented Nov. 17, 1891.

1M BY OVVWMF Q. Ma.

ATTORNEY INVENTURS UNITED STATES LAIVSON G. HUNTINGTON, OF NEW OFNEWARK,

PATENT OFFICE.

YORK, N. Y., AND ROBERT J. ARMOUR,

NEW- JERSEY.

SIGNAL LAMP OR LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 463,402, dated November17, 1891.

Application filed February 20, 1891. Serial No. 382,262, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LAWSON G. HUNTING- TON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, and ROBERTJ. ARMOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in thecounty of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Signal Lamps or Lanterns, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates especially to, the construction and arrangement ofthat class of lamps or lanterns wherein the body is provided with lensesand means for changing the color of the light displayed, and has for itsobject the provision of a removable perforated plate, oil-pot, and framewhich holds the various-colored glasses while in use and when not inuse.

To attain the desired end our invention consists, essentially, in alamp-body bearing lenses and wherein is located a removable frameprovided with pockets for the glasses and a receptacle for the spareglasses, a removable perforated plate beneath said frame, and aremovable oil-pot seated in said plate; and our invention involvescertain other novel and useful combinations or arrangements of parts andpeculiarities of construction and operation, all of which will behereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical central sectional view of alamp, showing the various parts in position. Fig. 2 is a view inelevation of the glass-supporting frame, perforated plate, and oil-potremoved from the lamp-body, on an enlarged scale; and Fig. 3 is a planview of the parts shown in Fig. 2.

Like letters of reference wherever they occur indicate correspondingparts in all the figures.

A is the lamp-body, bearinglenses -B.

O is a hinged or removable top to the lampbody, and D is thecarrying-bail.

E is the perforated plate, provided with a central opening which issurrounded bya cup or ring F.

G is a ring which rests upon or is secured to the perforated plate E,and H is a similar ring supported by the metal of the receptacles I forthe glasses J, arranged to hold said glasses between the lenses and thelight ofthe lamp, and by the pocket K, which receiv'es the spareglasses. The removable oilpot L finds a seat in the center of theperforated plate, and the ratchet-shaft P of the burner R passes throughan openingbetween two of the glass-receptacles and is supported by anotch-ed plate S.

When constructed and arranged in accordance with the foregoingdescription, the advantages of our invention are manifold. The frame,glasses, perforated plate, and oilpot mayall be removed from thelamp-body for the purpose of cleaning, and the perforated plate can bereadily cleaned'upon both sides.

Having now fully described our invention, what we claim as new therein,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, with a lamp-bodybear ing lenses, of a separableframe locatedwithin the lamp-body and provided with recepta cles fordifferent-colored glasses, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a lamp of the character herein specified, a separable framelocated within the lamp-body and provided with receptacles for holdingglasses between the lenses and the light, and a receptacle for spareglasses, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with the removable perforated. plate having anopening in its center for the reception of the oil-pot, of a removableframe provided with supports for glasses, substantially as shown anddescribed.

4. The combination, with the body bearing lenses, of aseparable framelocated within the go lamp-body and provided with receptacles forglasses, and a perforated plate by which said frame is'supported, saidplate being in turn supported by a ring or cup which forms the seat forthe oilp0t, substantially as shown and arranged substantialiy as shownand dcand described. scribed. V

5. A signal-lamp, in which is comprised an 7 LAYVSON G. HUN TlNGTON.open-topped body bearing lenses at its sides, ROBERT J. ARMOUR.

5 a separable glass-supporting frame and perforated plate located Withinthe body of the \Vitnesses: lamp, and a separable oil-pot also locatedA. M. PIERCE, Within the lamp-body, the Whole combined EDWARD O;ROWLAND.

